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Anderson achieves top Rookie honors during the 2025 season in the WISSOTA Midwest Modifieds

By Meghan Diemel, Editor

JAMESTOWN, ND — The 2025 season will go down as one of great significance for Jamestown, North Dakota’s Kyle Anderson.

The 28-year-old is the WISSOTA Midwest Modified Rookie of the Year, in addition to taking track championship titles at Jamestown Speedway and Sheyenne Speedway. He grabbed the victory during the 6th annual Don Gumke Memorial in the Midwest Mods, and he collected four other wins throughout the season.

Anderson has support from his mom and dad and his sponsors on the track, and when he’s not racing, he’s a service writer/technician.

All The Dirt! Racing News: What was your favorite racing-related memory from the 2025 season?

Kyle Anderson: Winning my first Midwest Modified feature at the Don Gumke Memorial race and getting to race it out with a longtime friend.

ATD: What was the low light, racing related, of the 2025 season?

Anderson: Realizing Mod noses are way harder to fix than Street Stock noses.

ATD: What is your background in racing, and who has helped your racing career along the way, whether family, friends, or other racing mentors?

Anderson: [I’ve] been at the races since I was 2, scraping mud on cars. [I] started racing karts at 7 and did that for seven years, and then three years of Bombers, 10 years of Street Stocks and now this first year of Midwest Modifieds. I couldn’t have done any of this without my dad, Jonny Carter and Travis Saurer.

ATD: From a wider perspective, what are a few of your favorite moments from your career to this point?

Anderson: Probably both of my Stock Car Stampede wins in 2014 and ’23, along with both of my Don Gumke Memorial wins in ’21 and ’25.

ATD: Break down the reality of a racing season for you. What is your advice regarding how much time and effort goes into a successful season like you’ve had, for drivers just getting their start in dirt track racing?

Anderson: Racing is a prime example of you get back what you put into it. There’s a lot of time put into the car every night, whether it’s a shop night or a race night.

ATD: What can be the hardest or most trying part of racing season for you, and why?

Anderson: The end of the season push, when your starting to get run down and tired of doing tire work.

ATD: What is your favorite event of the year and why?

Anderson: The Stock Car Stampede at Jamestown Speedway. It's home and [I] watched some of the best racing growing up there. It’s a very sentimental event for how big it’s been in the past.

ATD: Is there a race or race track you have never raced in/at, and why do you want to race there?

Anderson: Not really one in particular; as long as there’s some kind of racing going on, I'm good with it.

ATD: What will be your favorite part of the offseason, as we head toward late 2025 and early 2026, for you?

Anderson: Getting to reset this winter and go through the car with a more confident mindset, and be able to enter the 2026 season more prepared.

ATD: What are your racing plans for 2026?

Anderson: Plan is to go out and travel more, like we used to with the Street Stock.

ATD: Who are your sponsors you’d like to thank?

Anderson: Quality Truck and Ag Repair; Mike Rodin and Sons Trucking; Dakota Engine Builders; Kotaco Fuels; Lux Concrete; Spitzer Construction; Energize Electric; Extreme Auto; Thomas Farms; Qual Chiropractic; West End; Innovative Siding and Windows; Gordan’s Interstate Towing; Neva Farms; Tuffs Storage Units; Total Clean, Inc.; Team Redline Graphics; Team 21x Shocks; and Mason Aaron’s Racing Videos.